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An aborted geoengineering experiment was meant to set the stage for a much larger cloud-seeding experiment, covering 3,900 square miles.

Scientists Secretly Working on Plan to Test Blocking Sun From Huge Area of Earth

By Victor Tangermann

The UK will fund a bevy of solar geoengineering experiments to explore dimming the Sun as a way of combatting climate change.

Scientists Preparing Experiments to Dim the Sun

By Frank Landymore

Government scientists are calling on the European Union to ban massive space mirrors and other forms of solar geoengineering.

Scientists Call for Ban on Hacking the Earth’s Climate With Chemicals or Giant Mirrors

By Noor Al-Sibai

Weather-changing projects are taking place all over the world — and the United States is building a system to detect them all.

United States Attempting to Detect Other Countries Tinkering With the Climate

By Noor Al-Sibai

Injecting diamond dust into the atmosphere could significantly cool the planet, according to new research.

Scientists Propose Shooting $200 Trillion Worth of Pulverized Diamonds Into Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

Critics are concerned about plans to dim the Sun — and one of its staunchest proponents is criticizing them right back.

Scientist Defends Plan to Release Huge Amounts of Sulfur Into the Stratosphere

By Noor Al-Sibai

The climate experiment explored a technique called marine cloud brightening, in which aerosols are used to help clouds reflect more sunlight.

City Officials Halt Experiment to Hack Earth’s Climate, Citing Health Concerns

By Frank Landymore

A scientist is warning against regulatory attempts to ban geoengineering, which seeks to alter the weather as climate change makes it worse.

Scientist Slams Politicians For Banning Geoengineering Experiments

By Noor Al-Sibai

The use of aerosols to make clouds reflect more sunlight could be significantly more effective than once believed.

Scientists Find That “Cloud Engineering” Could Help Stave Off Climate Disaster

By Frank Landymore

Solar geoengineering might be the quickest may to reduce warming, but these scientists call for more research before it can be championed or ruled out.

Group of 60 Scientists Urge Research Into Geoengineering the Earth to Fight Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

From hobbyists in Northern Illinois to the guys at Make Sunsets who want to dim the sun, it appears that balloon dudes across the US are living in fear.

Science & Energy

Guy Trying to Dim Sun Frets That US Will Shoot Down His Balloon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While it offers an intriguing potential fix for climate change, some experts say geoengineering is more risk than it's worth.

Experts Fear Grim Repercussions of Geoengineering the Climate

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of astrophysicists is suggesting we could protect the Earth from global warming by shooting lunar dust into space to shade the Earth from sunlight.

Scientists Unveil Plan to Mount Cannons on the Moon to Fight Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Make Sunsets had barely got two of its sulfur dioxide releasing balloons in the air before the Mexican government banned the experiments outright.

Mexico Bans Startup From Future Solar Geoengineering Experiments

By Frank Landymore

An environmental startup called Make Sunsets has started injecting sulfur dioxide particles into the stratosphere in an effort to cool the planet.

Startup Says It’s Started Releasing Chemical Into Atmosphere to Dim Sun

By Victor Tangermann

The idea of "solar geoengineering," or shooting particles into the stratosphere to reduce the warming of the Sun, is no longer science fiction.

Scientists Increasingly Calling to Dim the Sun

By Victor Tangermann